Emerging threats encourage cooperation among security professionals
According to a new survey of attendees to this year’s Black Hat USA conference, concerns around emerging threats like ransomware and polymorphic malware have sparked a significant increase in collaboration by the cybersecurity industry.
The study by security management specialist AlienVault spoke to over 600 participants at the conference and found that for 43 percent, ransomware is their biggest security concern.
Avast launches new security solution for SMBs and MSPs
Following Avast's acquisition of rival firm AVG last year the two companies' products have largely continued side by side.
Today sees the launch of one of the first fruits of the union in the form of Avast Business, combining technology from AVG and Avast, and aimed at smaller businesses and managed service providers.
New technology platform helps secure business devices
Thanks to increased use of mobile and BYOD devices, there's a significant risk to business networks from un-managed and uncontrolled devices which could offer a route for security breaches.
Israeli startup company Axonius is looking to solve this problem with a new platform designed to eliminate blind spots on the network and provide a single place to understand, manage and control the security of all end user, compute and IoT devices.
Ransomware is the top threat to business data
New research from research organization the SANS Institute reveals that frontline IT professionals consider ransomware to be the top overall threat to data availability.
Insider threats and denial of service are also considered top threats to sensitive data. While the majority of respondents indicate that they escaped actual compromise of sensitive data in the last year, enough respondents did lose data to provide valuable lessons from these events.
New blood needed to solve the cyber security skills crisis
Senior figures in IT security see enticing staff from non-IT backgrounds and encouraging young people into the industry as vital to addressing the cyber security skills shortage.
A new study commissioned by MWR InfoSecurity and carried out by security discussion and networking group RANT shows respondents feel the core skills needed in cyber security are curiosity (46 percent) or on-the-job experience (34 percent), with no respondents saying a university IT degree is crucial.
47 percent of UK teens have been cyber bullied
According to a new study of 1,000 UK teenagers, 47 percent have been cyber bullied with 70 percent experiencing it on social media and Facebook being the most common platform.
The survey by McAfee reveals part of the problem appears to be that teens are not getting proper guidance at home or at school about staying safe online.
30 percent of Americans would leak private data for $1,000
As we carry out more of our day-to-day transactions online, so the amount of information about us that exists out on the internet grows.
That means there are more and more opportunities for data to be leaked or stolen, but a new study by IT staffing company Modis reveals that people still aren't taking their privacy seriously.
New blockchain platform helps cut online ad fraud
While digital advertising is increasingly popular, it suffers from a lack of trust due to fraud and, despite predictive technology, has relatively low accuracy. As a result, a high percentage of spend gets wasted.
Advertising ecosystem Papyrus, launching today, aims to bring together users, publishers, advertisers and developers of decentralized applications in a new way that permits them to interact in an environment with built-in fraud prevention and which offers an unprecedented level of control.
DMARC -- rebuilding trust in email [Q&A]
Email has become the default means of communication for both businesses and individuals, but as we saw yesterday it isn't without its problems.
A major issue email has is that of security, cyber criminals are getting better at creating phishing and other messages that accurately spoof commercial organizations. But there is a technology in the form of Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) which has the potential to restore faith in email communication.
New authentication methods help companies to ditch passwords
Most people now recognize that passwords alone are flawed as a means of securing systems. The problem is that there are lots of options when it comes to finding a better way of doing things.
Access control specialist SecureAuth is helping the move towards a passwordless world with the introduction of additional multi-factor authentication (MFA) methods, including Link-to-Accept via SMS or email, and YubiKey, the FIDO Universal Second-Factor (U2F) security key by Yubico.
How enterprises are using data to get work done
A new study by content management and collaboration specialist Egnyte has analyzed 25 Petabytes of customer data and four billion of the activities they performed.
This has been used to uncover unique insights about the way businesses are managing their data and how their employees are collaborating on it.
Sophisticated phishing attacks target Office 365
With over 100 million monthly subscribers, it's not surprising that Office 365 is a popular target when it comes to attempting to steal credentials.
A new report from Barracuda Networks looks at how phishers are sending out authentic-looking emails purporting to be from Microsoft asking users to reactivate their accounts.
Happy 35th birthday email, you've changed our lives
On August 30th 1982, Dr VA Shiva filed the first copyright for an email system. That means email turns 35 today, but though it's all grown up it's proved to be a bit of a problem child.
A new survey released to coincide with the anniversary by Edison Software, makers of an AI mail app, finds that email has grabbed a dominant role in many of our lives and this shows no signs of abating.
Improving the measurement of cyber threats before they turn into attacks
Cyber attacks are a major problem for companies and they can be made all the more devastating if a long time elapses before they're discovered.
A new report by the Cloud Security Alliance looks at helping enterprises develop metrics and processes to measure threats before they become cyber attacks.
New cloud solution allows multi-factor authentication across the enterprise
Data breaches can often be traced back to weak or stolen credentials, add in a proliferation of systems in the cloud and increasing levels of mobile access, and protecting business systems becomes a major headache.
Independent identity provider Okta is launching its latest cloud-based Okta Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication (AMFA) that makes two-factor authentication standard for every user.
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Ian spent almost 20 years working with computers before he discovered that writing about them was easier than fixing them. Since then he's written for a number of computer magazines and is a former editor of PC Utilities. Follow him on Mastodon
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